Aleksandra Tonelli (1992) is an argentinian pianist, composer and arranger. With a thriving international career, she performed in numerous theaters and festivals in the UK,Europe and Latin America. Aleksandra is also music professor in classical piano, and master of music in piano tango and jazz composition.She received several national and international recognitions in the Netherlands, the UK, and Argentina. She is currently bandleader of Quinteto Irreal and Cocoliche Trio, with whom she performs her own music. She also works as an artistic research coach (CODARTS Master Opleiding), and freelance pianist, composer and arranger.
Giuseppe Bordasco (1991) is an Italian bass player based in the city of Rotterdam. Giuseppe studied in Italy under the guidance of the Italian bass player Maurizio Rolli. He graduated with him at Pescara Conservatory “Luisa D’Annunzio" in both Pop (Bachelor) and Jazz (Master),before applying to Codarts in Rotterdam and graduating in World Music (Master), where he focused on Brazilian music. Along with his studies, he has been able to keep an heterogeneous concert schedule, playing with numerous bands and performing different styles in both Italy and Netherlands. He is currently composing and arranging along with Aleksandra Tonelli in Cocoliche Trio, combining styles stretching between Argentinian folklore, Jazz and Funk and also independently co-writing, co-arranging and playing for Banda Matatu. He is the bass player of other bands as Los Paja Brava and Tra trio as well as a session musician of numerous other projects and bands of the Netherlands. On top of his work in the Netherlands, he performs and sings in Bad Trio, lead by Matteo Fioretti in Italy.
Luis Daniel Mora Matus (1987) is a Chilean drummer/composer currently living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. At the moment, Luis is doing a Ph.D. in the Arts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.The focus of his research is the expansion of contemporary jazz soloing vocabulary by adapting tools and techniques from contemporary progressive metal. As a performing musician, he has recorded over 20 albums. He is currently working with the Dutch/Polish band Quantum Trio, the Colombian/Curaçaoan singer Juliana Martina, the contemporary jazz band Plink, the Italian avant-garde pianist Piergiorgio Pirro, the South-American instrumental folk Cocoliche Trio, and many others. In his free time, Luis likes to experiment with different musical ideas. One of those ideas is called “Classical Jazz Drumming,” in which he plays along to classical pieces and reinterprets them as they were contemporary jazz pieces.